A community campaign to save Wyong’s trees has been launched to overturn Wyong Council’s new policy of allowing all trees on residential land of less than 1500m2 to be cleared without first obtaining Council approval. As reported by the Central Coast...

The Coalition Government and Rural Fire Service ignored key safety advice when developing the controversial 10/50 tree clearing laws. The advice contained critical analysis of the equivalent 10/30 code from Victoria detailing how the laws gave communities a false...

The appalling decision by Wyong Council last night that has removed all local protections for urban trees is a destructive, knee-jerk response to the extremely rare and severe storms in NSW. As reported by the ABC: New South Wales Greens MP David Shoebridge is urging...

The Rural Fire Service has told Blue Mountains City Council that they have no evidence that the controversial 10/50 tree clearing laws materially reduce the bush fire risk in the region. In noting this advice the Council has unanimously passed a mayoral minute raising...

A highly critical report on the clearing of hundreds of square metres of critically endangered littoral rainforest in the Tweed has been referred to the Federal Environment Minister for his urgent intervention. The clearing was carried out under controversial NSW...

Documents from a recent GIPA to the Rural Fire Service on the 10/50 tree clearing code show that the Office of Environment and Heritage and the Department of Planning and Infrastructure failed to make any submissions to the RFS’ draft 10/50 code tree clearing code. ...